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2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 2_4_3.4Deaths per 1,000 hospital admissions with percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty,a age 40 and over,b by income, United States, 2000-2008

Median income of patient's ZIP Code

Total

First quartile (lowest income)

Second quartile

Third quartile

Fourth quartile (highest income)

Data year

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Rate

SE

Data year

2008

13.6

0.1

15.2

0.2

13.5

0.2

12.6

0.2

12.9

0.3

2007

14.1

0.1

14.9

0.3

14.4

0.3

14.0

0.3

12.7

0.3

2006

14.4

0.1

15.4

0.3

14.5

0.2

14.7

0.2

13.1

0.3

2005

15.4

0.1

15.4

0.3

15.6

0.3

15.9

0.3

14.6

0.3

2004

15.4

0.1

16.7

0.3

15.3

0.3

14.5

0.3

15.0

0.3

2003

16.2

0.1

17.7

0.3

15.6

0.3

15.3

0.3

16.3

0.3

2002

17.7

0.1

18.7

0.3

19.1

0.3

16.7

0.3

16.1

0.3

2001

19.4

0.1

19.8

0.3

19.7

0.3

19.8

0.3

18.1

0.3

2000

20.1

0.2

21.2

0.3

20.7

0.3

20.2

0.3

18.3

0.3

a. Obstetric admissions and transfers from another hospitals are excluded.

b. Rates are adjusted by age, gender, age-gender interactions, major diagnostic category (MDC), all patient refined-diagnosis related group (APR-DRG) risk of mortality score, and transfers into the hospital.� The AHRQ IQI software was modified to not use the present on admission (POA) indicators (or estimates of the likelihood of POA for secondary diagnosis).